Amen. Good morning. Welcome to church. You look great. Grab your Bibles. We're going to be in Acts Chapter 19. We're starting a brand new series. But before we do all that, I just want to honor a very special guest that we have here this morning. My mom, Linda Randolph, is right here on the front row. Thank you, Mama, for being here. I know it is miraculous to come and hear your son preach, not because of the preaching,

but because of the backstory that you know would rule me out from doing this.

So thank you.

All right, Acts Chapter 19.

We're beginning a brand new series this morning called the Church at Ephesus. And I mean, I'm so stoked about this.

Passes that we're going to preach on since the day we started in the book of Acts. We will have been in the

book of Acts for a year and a half by the time we get through it. The Book of Acts is the story of the

early church and how it got going and what the

Holy Spirit did through the early church. And I thought, you know, since we're a new church, that it

would be a great idea to just walk through the book of Acts and see what God says to us through

the Book of Acts. And in when I knew, I knew when we started that one day we'd get to Acts 19,

and I love this passage. You'll see why it includes

violence and nudity, and so it's awesome. But even in that, what we're going to do for the next

four weeks is called the church at Ephesus, because Paul is planting the church at Ephesus.

And it's an incredible church. The way we study Acts, the way we do Bible study, a lot of Bible studies, you know, we're way up close and personal.

We take one verse and spend a lot of time on it or unpacking one word or it might take us a month

to get through one chapter. Well, sometimes what you need to do in the word is you kind of got

back it up a little bit and maybe try to palm it and get an idea of what's going on in some other

places too.

So, this church that gets started in Ephesus, it's kind of a big deal.

In fact, there's an entire book of the Bible called Ephesians written to the church at Ephesus.

And I know we think our church is awesome because we transformed to Walmart, but this, we're

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